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TCB => Trader & Shipping Support => Topic started by: Roogna on March 16, 2012, 05:29:12 AM

Title: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: Roogna on March 16, 2012, 05:29:12 AM: this morning I mailed a custom pony to Italy, and the PO worker told me that if I'm shipping a TOY to Italy that I should mark it as

"Collectible Item"
or
"Novelty Item"

and not "toy"
he said there's some kind of embargo or something on toys going into Italy...
of course, then he said they wouldn't be able to read my writing anyway! LOL :P I love being a regular at the PO lol
Title: Re: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: ponylady on March 16, 2012, 05:44:31 AM: Good tip! I write just Horse Figure usually and it seems to work also.
Title: Re: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: pinkkittywinks on March 16, 2012, 12:23:32 PM: good tip! i always put on my customs lables "collectable horse figure" which ever country i am shipping too :)

love pkw xxx
Title: Re: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: Ringlets on March 16, 2012, 07:15:00 PM: There are restrictions on toys being imported to Italy (very stooopido if you ask me - especially since I wanna go live there eventually ) so thats why you shouldnt write toy on the Italy customs form. I would go with the horse figure or novelty item ;) ...collectible items have a tendency to go MIA.
Thankfully Euro/UK peeps dont have to deal with customs forms when we ship to Italy, so we dont have this issue, but its definitely a good tip for non-Euro peeps. Thank you for posting :bigups: :happy:
Title: Re: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: Izrabeth on March 19, 2012, 03:01:38 AM: Just to confirm my other post that with "toy" the package arrives without problems, I just received a custom pony from JPP and she wrote "custom my little pony toy" :)
Title: Re: shipping to Italy (helpful tip)
Post by: Ringlets on March 19, 2012, 06:22:22 PM: good to know Izrabeth :bigups: I'm glad your custom arrived safely :)